There are a lot of occasions in life when people need portable water filters which can easily be transported to where they are needed. This can be on a hiking or camping trip, in the time of a natural disaster, or to eliminate the need to buy and dispose of plastic water bottles. Some of these filtration devices are so small that they only weigh a pound or two, but they contain filters that effectively remove bacteria, cysts, and other contaminants from drinking water...
Residential water filtration equipment, once thought to be unnecessary, is becoming increasingly important these days as study after study finds municipal water treatment not living up to safe standards. In fact, a study conducted by the Ralph Nader Research Institute revealed that America's drinking water contains more than 2,100 chemicals which can cause cancer when ingested over an extensive period of time...
The quality of municipal water treatment has been coming under fire due to reports of excessive contaminants being present in the water that is pumped to American homes. Such harmful substances as lead, fluoride, chlorine, chromium, bacteria, and viruses are being allowed to remain in the water leading to cloudy H2O, bad smells, and unpalatable tastes...
Living in America provides us with a lot of “luxuries” that other people in the world can only dream of. One of them is the unending supply of clean, fresh water for household use. All we have to do is turn on a faucet, and we're able to drink, bathe, cook, clean, and use as much water as we want...
If you've ever looked into purchasing water filtration equipment for your home, you have probably run into the term “micron” in relationship to the abilities of the device to clean your water. Since most of us aren't scientists, you may have either just passed over the term to concentrate on something you could understand or you may have figured that it wasn't really important...
It's hard to know what to think these days about the best ways to keep your family healthy. So many of the notions that have been handed down from generation to generation are changing, and there are multiple versions of every theory making it difficult to choose the right course of action. Take your tap water, as an example...
Shower filters, for most of us, are just luxuries. Most people think of it as an additional expense rather than a helpful device. Typically, people think that by just using tap water that nothing bad will go inside our bodies or cause us any harm. That by using soap we know that the germs are removed from our body and that is enough...
Are you honestly concerned about the quality of the water that's running into your home? No matter if you're using municipal water or that from a well, you're right to worry about your family's health. Many of the horror stories you hear via the media about substances like metals, bacteria, and chemical wastes still being in the water processed in some cities are true...
Although the problem isn't unique to Iowa, the state has launched an investigation into findings that there is excessive arsenic in its drinking water sources. Both well water and municipal tap water are being effected by the naturally-occurring element. Over the past decade, 20 public water systems have been found guilty of having excessive arsenic levels in their final product...
If you're like most consumers today, you find yourself getting bogged down when trying to choose amongst the multitude of products and brands that are available. For example, when you turn into the cereal aisle in your local supermarket, you find yourself confronted with at least 100 kinds to choose from...
